As recently as last night, the Trump administration was strongly in favor of legislation to renew one of the federal government’s most controversial spying powers. Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act grants the government surveillance powers that are only supposed to be used on targets outside the United States.

Civil liberties groups say that the law can too easily be used to sweep up the private communications of American citizens. And they’re backing legislation called the USA Rights Act to place new restrictions on the use of 702 spying powers. Last night, the White House put out a statement condemning USA Rights.

During his morning Executive Time, President Trump took a well-deserved break from his long hours of document study to watch Fox News. The segment featured one of the talking heads urging Trump to oppose the House bill reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The president immediately tweeted out his alarmed confusion that the House was apparently on the verge of approving the very law the sinister Deep State had used to “tapp” his phones. Trump tweeted:

“House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.” This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?”

Today there is speculation that Trump will be added as the 22nd example of stupid people doing stupid things to this video.

The president’s alarm was unfortunate for him at a time he was trying to prove to the country that he is mentally competent to run the country. The problem is that Trump supposedly strongly supports reauthorization of this law. Trump’s administration has sent its highest-ranking security officials to lobby Congress for reauthorization, and reiterated its endorsement of the law as recently as last night.The source of Trump’s confusion may be that he has taken seriously the Republican talking points about the Deep State, failing to realize that it’s disingenuous propaganda designed to cover up misdeeds by his campaign. Republicans don’t actually object to the counterintelligence functions of the government as a whole. They merely want to discredit their specific application to the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia. They don’t want the president blowing up the bill right before the vote they labored carefully to assemble.

As impressive as it may have been for Trump to sit upright and participate in a discussion of public policy while only subverting his administration’s position one time, an immediate Executive Time relapse has revealed that Trump does not understand his own administration’s policy.

Update: Apparently somebody has explained the administration’s position to the president, who has followed up his old tweet opposing the House bill with a new one supporting it:

“With that being said, I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today’s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. We need it! Get smart!”

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Each day gets worst with this fraud and his deplorable criminals occupying our buildings and life. It is very hard to avoid them. I can only say this at this point…Russia? if you are reading this? Please come and get your ASSet, don trump. He has worn out his welcome in the usa and we will deport him along with his family of deplorable criminals to the gates of hell that you have lit and maintained. Thank you Sincerely, The American People

45 needs some time on the links and a Happy Meal at Mar a Lago. It’s been a bad week for the genius. Not a much of a detail or memory genius.

For those worried about the data gathering, a funny story. When they finally finished the supercomputer that would collect the data, it crashed when they turned out on. They failed to upgrade the power supply to handle the new hardware. (The power supply is the size of a residential substation.) They ended up having to wait for a new more powerful power supply to be built.

But wait, there’s more. Due to budget cuts, there are only enough analysts to review a fraction of the data. Budget cuts also depleted the staff of foreign language experts.
And the final item of insanity about the spy program, 45’s immigration policies ended up deporting many of the remaining foreign language analysts.

So the A hole discovered buzzfeed was about to launch a report that the Haitian gov. accused trump of money laundering right before the shiny chithole insult. Yep. porn, lies, crime, money laundering, you name it, Donald has his shithole in it.